Glendale AZ

First responders were called to reports of the crash around 7:30 a.m. on Camelback Road near the Interstate 17 access road. Seven people were hospitalized.

Scottsdale is making a new push to improve downtown and Old Town. More than 40 small business owners are now helping shape how city funding could be used. The big question: what should visitors find when they get to Old Town?

After serving as Avondale’s economic development director since 2024, Jennifer Stein has been promoted to assistant city manager. Now in her first week on the job, Stein said she is eager to serve the community in a new capacity. “I am extremely excited about this opportunity and grateful to...

If you opened my trunk, you’d likely find an emergency kit of napkins and a stack of menus from every pizza joint I’ve “investigated” over the last decade. I consider myself a crust connoisseur, a professional critic of the cheese-to-sauce ratio, and a skeptic of anything that claims to be “the best.”

On a hot afternoon in Phoenix, the air above the asphalt shimmers. You can smell it: that acrid, petroleum-thick scent that clings to the back of your throat. Most people assume it burns off harmlessly, carried away by the same breeze that makes the heat bearable. Elham Fini spent years assuming the same thing, more or less. Then she started actually measuring what...

PHOENIX — Banner Thunderbird Medical Center in Glendale recently became the first hospital in the West to use a new robotic technique. The Aesculap Aeos Robotic Digital Microscope provides surgeons with a high-definition 3D visual, which can be viewed by the entire operating room in real time during procedures. In addition, surgeons can use a handgrip or wireless foot switch to control the robotic...

GLENDALE, Ariz. - A woman is in custody after authorities say a body with a gunshot wound was found inside a burned car on a freeway in Glendale. Just after 10:30 p.m. on April 21, the Arizona Department of Public Safety says troopers responded to a car fire on southbound Loop 101 near Union Hills Drive. DPS says a woman was standing outside the...

Phoenix has once again earned a failing grade from the American Lung Association in the organization's annual rankings of air quality across the U.S. According to this year’s State of the Air report, Phoenix is the fourth-smoggiest city in the U.S. Phoenix had no improvement from last year, when the city also ranked fourth-worst for ozone pollution.

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PHOENIX — A 70-year-old landscaper is recovering after a swarm of bees stung him dozens of times. Benjamin Montgomery told 12News he was clearing weeds in a yard near 7th Street and Thomas Road on April 11 when hundreds of bees attacked him. “They swarmed all over me," Montgomery...